Pleasingly floral with a light vegetal snap-pea finish. One can tell it is in the pea family from taste alone. The vibrant indigo blue color is pure antioxidant power. Amazing tea! 💠

A single violet geranium flower with raindrops blooming on the December solstice. 🌞

A #geranium on the #WinterSolstice. 🌸 🌱

¡Congratulations & best wishes! 🎊

A vivid orange crocosmia blooming out of season on the first of November, with raindrops.

#Crocosmia curiously reblooming on a rainy November 1st. 🏵💀🍁🌱
#bloomscrolling #samhain #díadelosmuertos #autumn

A green praying mantis walking on a stick through some fuzzy sideritis plants. Keeping the tea pest-free. 🍵

A #MantisMonday stroll though some #sideritis.🪲🌿🌱

A large red Hibiscus moscheutos in bloom. 🌺

🌺 Huge Hardy #Hibiscus for #FloralFriday. 🌱

Hyperlocal douglas aster during sunset in my yard where it natively occurs. When cultivated it becomes an enormous spreading pollinator powerhouse that blooms nonstop from June to November. A PNW must have. 🌼 🐝 🦋

Ultra-local native #DouglasAster for #FloralFriday.
🌼 🌅 🌱
#SymphyotrichumSubspicatum #bloomscrolling #flowersonfriday #nativeplants #sunset

A rufous hummingbird guards prized crocosmia flowers.

Last minute crocosmia guard for #NationalHummingbirdDay.
🪶 🌱 🌸

#hummingbird #rufoushummingbird #SelasphorusRufus #crocosmia

Hibiscus sabdariffa bloom & calyx. Soon to become delicious tea.

First time growing #roselle, small blooms ➡️ big flavor calyces.
🌺🍵🌱
#HibiscusSabdariffa #hibiscus #FloralFriday #edibleflowers #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling

Female/immature rufous hummingbird feasting on magenta salvia nectar.

Rufous #hummingbird on #salvia for #FloralFriday. 🪶🌸🌱

#bloomscrolling #flowersonfriday #rufoushummingbird #SelasphorusRufus

A red-striped orange sunflower with a green treefrog sitting in its petals. 🌻 🐸

Happy #NationalSunflowerDay with a frog on top.
🌻 🐸 🌻 🐸 🌻
#sunflower #PseudacrisRegilla #flowerfrog #PacificTreefrog #bloomscrolling 🌱

Lemon yellow sunflowers visited by bees with multicolored sunflowers and a forest in the background. 🌻

Happy last minute #NationalSunflowerDay!
🌻 🐝 🌻 🐝 🌻
#sunflower #helianthus #bee #bloomscrolling 🌱

Native locally collected seed grown nodding onions in a flower border. They are equally pollinator friendly, tasty and pretty. 🌸

Local nodding onions this #WildflowerWednesday. Besides being pest free & showy, the whole plant is delectably edible; plus the flowers are great in salads.
🌸 🧅 🌸 🧅 🌸

#AlliumCernuum #NoddingOnion #nativeplants #edibleflowers #bloomscrolling 🌱

Multibranched red flame sunflowers with gold ember tips and black centers.

Flaming red #SunflowerSunday.
🌻🧡❤️
#sunflower #bloomscrolling 🌱

Clarkia amoena (farewell-to-spring) & nearly bloomed out collomia grandiflora (large-flowered phlox) in a native wildflower border. They seeded prolifically all over. Leafcutter bees have been working on the clarkia petals. 🌸

#Clarkia & #Collomia Combo.
🌼 🌱 🌸
#WildflowerWednesday #nativeplants #ClarkiaAmoena #CollomiaGrandiflora #pnw #bloomscrolling #flowerreport

Tall multi branched gold & red flame sunflowers. 🌻

Large flowered flame sunflowers in the sun. This self seeded specimen has lighter yellow petals with more pink/rose flame markings than is typical.

Self-seeded flame sunflowers on #SunflowerSunday. They've taken over the garden. 🌻 🌱
#sunflower #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #edibleflowers

Wonderful! I'm helping them seed around since there are never enough.

Güzel. Hood Dağı ve Trillium Gölü. 🌅 🏔

Brodiaea elegans (elegant brodiaea) blooming in a vegetable garden. ✨️

Brodiaea coronaria (crown brodiaea) in a vegetable garden edge with a cucumber tendril claiming a bud. 👑

Native #brodiaea for #WildflowerWednesday. Both B. coronaria & elegans are called "harvest brodiaea" for their tasty edible bulbs. The beautiful blooms attract local pollinators.
🌸 🌱 🧅✨️
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #BrodiaeaCoronaria #BrodiaeaElegans #PNW #violetflowers 🌿

A fragrant gold centered magenta trumpet lily rises above background flowers near a forest edge.

A fragrant trumpet #lily for #MagentaMonday. 🌸 🌱

#bloomscrolling #trumpetlily

A vivid sunset in Manzanita, Oregon at aphelion - the day Earth is farthest from the sun. 🌎↔️☀️

Tonight's #sunset at #aphelion - when Earth is farthest from the sun. 🌅✨️

#beach #Manzanita #Oregon #OregonCoast 🌎↔️🌞

Nice Prunella/Heal-all, a useful medicinal herb.

Far above Pacific ocean rock islands, arches & and airplanes during aphelion 2025.

A golden columbian tiger lily in a coastal PNW rainforest on aphelion.

Turkey vulture soaring over Nehalem Bay.

Coastal vista from south facing slopes of Neahkahnie Mountain rainforest with rock islands and headlands in the distance.

Hiking among wildflowers & above an #airplane, #vulture & ocean on #aphelion.
🌞 🌼 🌱 🪶 🛩
#lily #LiliumColumbianum #turkeyvulture #CathartesAura #OregonCoast 🌿

A Castilleja miniata (giant red Indian paintbrush) blooms near a gushing clear alpine waterfall with glaciated mountain peaks in the distance. ☀️ 🔝

The precipice of a crystaline alpine #waterfall for the northern hemispheric #SummerSolstice.
🏔 🌸 ☀️ 🌱 ⛲️
#solstice #wildflowers #castilleja #mountains #nativeplants #flowersonfriday 🌿

A trio of graceful goblet shaped mushrooms with black reflexed caps/cups & white stipes. 🍄

A black & white #mushroom trio³ in the garden for #MushroomMonday.
🍄 🔘 🌱 📸

Vibrant Camassia leichtlinii (great camas) with visiting Bombus vosnesenskii (yellowfaced bumblebee).

A nemophila douglasii blue border area. 💠

Triteleia grandiflora near a forest edge. A favorite (and edible) wildflower.

Blue star flowers of Frasera albicaulis. 💠

Last minute native blue #WildflowerWednesday.
💠 🌱 💠 🐝 💠

#nativeplants #triteleia #camassia #frasera #nemophila #虫 #pnw #bloomscrolling #blueflowers 🌿

Cape Horn, Washington, (west gorge) with Beacon Rock in the distance. Lush green vegetation & clouds hang on mountain ridges of the Columbia river canyon. ⛰️

Arid landscape above Lyle, Washington (east gorge) overlooking the vast Columbia river bathed in crepuscular sunrays.

Typical Gorge-ous biome change from rainforest to high-desert in less than 50 miles. 🏞↔️🏜 📸
#ColumbiaRiver #ColumbiaRiverGorge #CapeHorn #Lyle #Washington 🌿

A fuzzy-horned bumble bee (Bombus mixtus) pollinates a great white camas (Camassia leichtlinii) in its native habitat.

Another last minute #FloralFriday #camassia + pollinator.
🌼 🌱 🐝
#camas #whiteflowers #bumblebee #BombusMixtus #nativeplants #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #beescrolling #虫

A Bombus vosnesenskii / yellow faced bumblebee feeding on camas nectar.

A #Beltane #bumblebee for May day.
🐝 🌼 🌱
#camas #camassia #nativeplants #blueflowers #bee #虫 🌿

Vibrant indigo-blue & violet toned camassia leichtlinii bloom under a late April sunset. In addition to its beauty, camas is a valuable native food plant. 💙💜

A last minute #FloralFriday sunset in the #camas patch.
💠 🌅 🌱
#camassia #nativeplants #blueflowers #bloomscrolling #flowersonfriday 🌿